Celtic’s retention of Scotland’s Premiership, with two games to spare, makes a mockery of the notion – prevalent after Rangers won an Old Firm game on 29 December – that their domestic dominance might end any time soon. The rush to frame a title race – involving Celtic and Rangers only, of course – remains a desperately predictable business. Celtic remain, by a considerable distance, the finest team in Scotland, with more than enough resource to ensure that continues.
To many, praising Celtic for winning the league – accomplished with their 3-0 win at Aberdeen – is akin to congratulating a 40-year-old for tying his own shoelaces. Yet this campaign has had its challenges, primarily the sharp exit of Brendan Rodgers to Leicester in late February. The season opened with Rodgers’s unhappiness over recruitment, which manifested itself in a grim mood not prevalent around Celtic since before the former Liverpool manager’s arrival.
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